OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	22
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?	21
Recent developments in reliance upon third-party fact-finding at the International Court of Justice	11
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	8
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	7
Legal measures to preserve lunar security and safety in the context of China–US competition to the Moon: An appraisal from China’s perspective	7
The rediscovery of the Roman jus gentium and the post 1945 international order	7
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	7
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	6
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	6
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	5
On consular internationalism	5
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	5
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion	5
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	5
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	4
Bibliography	4
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	4
Mapping representation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	4
Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	4
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	4
Protecting concessionary rights: General principles and the making of international investment law	4
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice	4
National climate litigation and the international rule of law	4
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	4

Inter-regime conversations: What barriers persist for individuals in international law?	3
The judicial assessment of states’ action on climate change mitigation	3
LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	3
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission	3
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	2
Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS	2
A forgotten proponent of a league of nations and his contributions to international law	2
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	2
Reflections on our article ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’	2
Bibliography	2
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Between the utopian imaginaries of literature and international law: The question of the insurgent child in international legal discourse and Kris Montañez’s Youth	2
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images	2
Bibliography	2
China and international law: Two tales of an encounter	2
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	2
Legal justifications for gender parity on the bench of the International Court of Justice: An argument for evolutive interpretation of Article 9 of the ICJ Statute	2
The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication	2
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	2
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities	2
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM	2
Bibliography	2
Greening the road: China’s low-carbon energy transition and international trade regulation	2
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case	2
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	2
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	2
LJL volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	1
LJL volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	1
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	1
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	1
International law-making and the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea	1
LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Bibliography	1
Bibliography	1
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	1
Prologue to truth: Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappeared and the authority of international law	1
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	1
Out of sight, out of mind? The proliferation of space debris and international law	1
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	1
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations	1
Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	1
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	1
LJL volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Bibliography	1
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	1

The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	1
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	1
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	1
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	1
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	1
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes	1
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	1
A critical analysis of the work of the ILC on ‘State Succession in Matters of State Responsibility’: A missed opportunity	1
‘International Shanghai’ (1863–1931): Imperialism and private authority in the Global City	1
Resistance to territorial and maritime delimitation judgments of the International Court of Justice and clashes with ‘territory clauses’ in the Constitutions of Latin American states	1
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back	1
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy	1